Lost Colony

Famous quotes containing the words lost and/or colony:

“Then the wife of the skipper lost at sea
Said, “God has touched him! why should we!””
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

““Tall tales” were told of the sociability of the Texans, one even going so far as to picture a member of the Austin colony forcing a stranger at the point of a gun to visit him.”
—Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)